Bad Boy (Inspector Banks) - Softcover

Robinson, Peter

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9780061362965: Bad Boy (Inspector Banks)

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ISBN 10: 0061362964 ISBN 13: 9780061362965

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2011

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From New York Times bestselling author Peter Robinson comes this mesmerizing story--within-a-story--that will thrill his fans and bring him many new readers.

A distraught woman arrives at the Eastvale police station desperate to speak to Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. But Banks is abroad, and the woman's revelation of a loaded gun hidden in her daughter Erin's bedroom leads to a shocking fatality when a police armed-response team breaks into her house. The fallout will have dark consequences for Banks and his partner, DI Annie Cabbot. It turns out that Erin's best friend is Banks' own daughter, Tracy . . . who was last seen in the company of the weapon's actual owner, a very bad boy indeed.

Now that his child is on the run with a psychopath, Banks finds himself caught in a bloody tangle of betrayal and murder. But the rogue DCI is a bit of a bad boy himself, and he'll freely risk his life and career in the cause of love--and vengeance.

Thrilling, harrowing, and utterly compelling, Bad Boy showcases Peter Robinson's masterful writing.

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Review:

In Bad Boy, as before in his impressive body of work, Peter Robinson has tackled – and mastered – a naggingly recurrent problem for crime writers: the over-familiar scenario. He grabs with both hands the notion of the male/female copper duo eternally at odds with each other and does something subtly different, always coming up with some new innovation to keep clich� firmly at bay. Here again are DCI Alan Banks and his associate DI Annie Cabbot tackling particularly knotty problems, and even though Banks is offstage for a chunk of the action (evidence, again, of Robinson ringing the changes), we are reminded why readers are so at ease with this long-running series: Banks and Cabbot are two of the most distinctive figures in the overcrowded police procedural field.

In Bad Boy, Banks’ daughter Tracy – prone to ill-considered actions -- has found herself bewitched by her flatmate’s boyfriend, whose good looks conceal a dangerous personality. He goes on the run from the police, he drags along the pliable Tracy Banks, and the threatening events that result are bad news for everyone involved – in particular, the beleaguered policeman who is also a worried parent, Alan Banks.

As aficionados know, with any Peter Robinson novel, the reader can sit back and enjoys a master of the police procedural form, with all the expected elements satisfyingly in place. DCI Banks is shortly to enjoy a television incarnation – and it’s a safe bet that the filmmakers will struggle to keep things as fresh as Robinson always manages to do. --Barry Forshaw

Review:

"Excellent characterization and skillful plotting make this an engrossing read."--Library Journal on Bad Boy

"Entertaining."--Kirkus Reviews on Bad Boy

"(A) strong entry in a superb series."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Bad Boy

"Another outstanding crime novel from Robinson."--Booklist (starred review) on Bad Boy

"A murderous psychopath presents Alan Banks with the most intensely personal challenge of the maverick detective's storied career. Superbly cinematic from the beginning to the explosive finale, this would be a thrilling movie."--Joseph Wambaugh, New York Times bestselling author of Hollywood Moon

"You'd better buy."--Library Journal on Bad Boy

"Robinson once again achieves the high bar he's set in all his previous Inspector Banks books: gut-wrenching plotting alongside heart-wrenching portraits of the characters who populate his world, not to mention the top-notch police procedure. This one will stay with you for a long time."--Jeffery Deaver, New York Times bestselling author of Roadside Crosses

"A top-notch thriller that further advances Banks' development as one of the most intriguing characters in detective fiction....With emotional literacy and inexorable momentum that builds tension to the breaking point, Robinson reaffirms his place in the top cadre of police-procedural writers."--Richmond Times-Dispatch on Bad Boy

"Bad Boy is very, very good indeed."--Strand magazine on Bad Boy

A top-notch thriller that further advances Banks development as one of the most intriguing characters in detective fiction .With emotional literacy and inexorable momentum that builds tension to the breaking point, Robinson reaffirms his place in the top cadre of police-procedural writers. --Richmond Times-Dispatch on Bad Boy"

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